As Senior Vice President, Audience, Elizabeth Osder leads product and programming for Buzznet.com. Prior to joining Buzznet, Osder was Sr. Director of Product at Yahoo!, responsible for local, search and social media products for Yahoo!'s global news and information sites. During Osder’s tenure, Yahoo! News became the Internet's number-one news destination, serving 40 million-plus unique users a month. Osder also launched social media initiatives such as “You Witness News.” Osder’s work at Yahoo! Media Group was preceded by her role as Director of Product Development for Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM), where she helped develop Content Match, Yahoo!’s Publisher Network and many of YSM’s publisher services.
Since the early 1990s, Osder has been an editor, producer and consultant for publications, broadcasters and online services, starting with BBS’s and early online services. As Global Managing Partner for iXL/Scient’s Media & Entertainment practice, Osder’s clients included NPR, the Washington Post, News Corp, the Financial Times, Time Warner and Applied Semantics/Google. Prior to iXL/Scient, she served as Director of Product Development and Content Development Editor for the New York Times Digital, where she helped launch the Times’ website in 1995. Before Times Digital, Osder was Executive Producer for Advance Internet, responsible for putting some of the first newspapers onto the Internet and creating award-winning entertainment sites, notably The Yuckiest Site on the Internet and Rockhall.com for the opening of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Osder began her career as a freelance photojournalist and photo editor for the Associated Press.
A frequent speaker on media and publishing, Osder is a recognized innovator in the rapid adoption of new technologies by traditional media companies. She is a founding board member of the Online News Association and has taught in the graduate Journalism programs at USC Annenberg, Columbia and NYU; she has also conducted professional seminars across the US and in China, Scandinavia and Spain. She is currently teaching and developing graduate curriculum in media management and online communities for USC Annenberg School. In 2001-2002 Osder was awarded a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she studied technologies and communications. Osder holds an M.A. from The University of Missouri School of Journalism and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.
Osder serves on the national Health Promotions Advisory Committee for the American Cancer Society and the Missouri Publishers Association. Over the past fifteen years, she has received numerous awards and honors for creative programming and product development innovations.
Residing in Los Angeles, Osder claims being the first girl to play competitive Little League baseball as her most cherished accomplishment.
